Service

Units

Group93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they...

Missions

1 August 1943Operation TIDAL WAVE. B24D Liberators attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. The bombers flew low to avoid radar detection and dropped time delayed bombs. Out of the 177 B24Ds that took part in the raid 167 managed to attack their targets. 57...

Places

Military site : airfieldAlconbury had been constructed as a satellite airfield for RAF Upwood and Wyton and was used by RAF Squadrons: Nos. 15, 40 and 156. In preparation for the arrival of American heavy bombers, the base was developed in 1942 with the runways extended. When...

Military site : airfieldPlanned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....

Each yellow bomb indicates a successful bombing raid over Europe, the count in this photo is fourteen signifying fourteen successful European missions. The two Black bombs indicate a night raid over Africa and the fourteen red bombs day raids over Africa. The five crosses each represent a fighter kill claimed by the planes crew, if true this would place it at the status of fighter pilot aces. Finally the submarine represents a claim by the crew of that they sunk a U-boat while flying over the gulf of Mexico before being assigned to Britain. Overall the record shows thirty successful missions, fourteen raids over Europe, fourteen raids in the day over Africa and two African night raids, five fighter kills and a submarine sinking.